Re: Laying out a new house - looking for Wiring and controller advise

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was converting from X10 to Insteon I found that some of my
Leviton X10 dimmers would cause their loads to flicker when Insteon
signals were sent. I have not seen the same from other Insteon units
though. Once I completed the conversion, the flickering was gone with
the X10 units.


> "none" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> "John J" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> I've read the Insteon comparison, done by Insteon, with a skeptical
>>> view. Anyone had any real world experience with this size system
>>> and layout?
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>> Insteon has a major hardware defect, sub-standard choke coils that
>> are allowing noise into the triac, which causes VERY undesirable and
>> significant light flickering when certain loads are dimmed and there
>> is Insteon communication. It won't be fixed until July (maybe, they
>> aren't promising). (and boo to SmartHome for continuing to ship the
>> defective dimmers when they have supposedly fixed the problem in the
>> newer ToggleLincs but not the older Decora or KeypadLinc dimmers).
>>
>> I would wait until then if you plan on doing anything with Insteon.
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> Where did you find this information? I've been watching a thread on
> SmartHome's Insteon forum
> (http://www.techmall.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=9) which indicates there
> are two (perhaps related) problems. One is with Insteon controlled
> lights that flash on/off rapidly when there is powerline traffic from
> Insteon controllers and another is with certain non-Insteon
> controlled lights (various lights & controllers) also flickering
> during Insteon transmissions. I haven't seen any diagnosis from
> SmartHome and question whether "sub-standard choke coils" could
> explain the symptoms.
>
> There is another problem which I've seen, Bruce Robin has seen, and
> others have also reported wherein Insteon controllers/modules appear
> to be reacting to very low level out-of-band "noise". The LED on the
> controller/module will flicker rapidly and the controller/module will
> stop responding to legitimate powerline signals. This problem has
> been around for a few years, predating Insteon. I first saw it with
> the very first PowerLinc RS232 interface, it's also present in their
> 2000STW LampLinc modules and now it seems to also be affecting the
> Insteon hardware.